Gehry's See-Through Symphony
19 December 2006 - 12:00pm
Architect Frank Gehry's design for a new concert hall in Miami Beach blends openness with the next-generation Internet.
"New World Symphony's $200 million new home in Miami Beach [is a] a diminutive, Frank Gehry-designed concert hall whose versatility and Internet outreach could resuscitate a languishing concert form...They will all be wired with Internet2, which is 100,000 times faster than the broadband in use today and is now limited to a small number of businesses, universities and government agencies."
Source:
Bloomberg.com, December 8, 2006
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